noun · femininethird declension
cohors
cohors f (genitive cohortis)
Classical[ˈko.(ɦ)ɔrs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkɔː.ors]
№ 666 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- femininea court
- femininea farmyard or enclosure
is capit extrēmī volpem convalle salictī;
He catches a vixen in a ravine at the end of a willow grove; she had carried off many farmyard birds.8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.703–704 - femininea retinue or escort
- femininea circle or crowd
- femininetenth part of a legion
- femininea military unit of about 500 to 600 men
- femininea band or armed force
- femininea ship's crew
- femininea bodyguard
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
pars legiōnis; decem cohortēs ūna legiō sunt.cohors -rtis f — in Mille Verba, Bellum et Arma
pars legiōnis, manus mīlitumcohors -ortis (f) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 25
mīlitum manuscohors -rtis (f) — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 21
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Caterva · Cohors · Agmen · Grex · Globus · Turba
Caterva, cohors, and agmen, denote an assembled multitude in regular order, and caterva, as a limited whole, according to a sort of military arrangement; cohors, as respecting and observing the leadership of a commanding officer; agmen, as a solemn procession; whereas turba, grex, and globus, denote a multitude assembled in no regular order, grex, without form or order; turba, with positive disorder and confusion; globus, a thronging mass of people, which, from each person pressing towards the centre, assumes a circular form. (v. 361.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cohors | cohortēs cōrtēs |
| genitive | cohortis cōrtis | cohortium cōrtium |
| dative | cohortī cōrtī | cohortibus cōrtibus |
| accusative | cohortem cōrtem | cohortēs cohortīs, cōrtēs, cōrtīs |
| ablative | cohorte cōrte | cohortibus cōrtibus |
| vocative | cohors | cohortēs cōrtēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- cohors, quae in statione est
- the cohort on guard-duty.
cŏhors (or cors; cf. Non. p. 83, 14 sq.; later aspirated orthog. of MSS. chors; cf. the letter C, and Schneid. ad Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 3), rtis, f. Sanscr. root har, rapio; cf. Gr. χορός.
I. A place enclosed around, a court, enclosure, yard, pen, etc., esp. for cattle, poultry, etc.
(a). Cohors, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 2 sq.; 2, 2, 9; Cato ap. Fest. p. 146, 29 Müll.; Col. 8, 3, 8; 7, 3, 8; Ov. F. 4, 704.—
(b). Cors, Varr. ap. Non. l. l.; Glaucia ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65 fin.; Col. 2, 14, 18; Vitr. 6, 9; Mart. 3, 58, 12; 13, 45, 2; Pall. 1, 22.—
II. Meton. (cf. chorus).
A. Lit., the multitude enclosed, fenced in; hence, in milit. lang., a company of soldiers, a division of an army, a cohort, the tenth part of a legion, comprising three manipuli or six centuriae (always written cohors), Varr. L. L. 5, § 88; Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 6; Veg. Mil. 2, 6; so Caes. B. G. 3, 1; id. B. C. 1, 73; Sall. J. 90, 2; 105, 2; Verg. G. 2, 279; id. A. 11, 500 al.: praetoria, the prœtorian or bodyguard of the general, Caes. B. G. 1, 40; Sall. C. 61, 3 al.—Hence, trop.:
habere scortorum cohortem praetoriam, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24.—2. Opp. legiones, auxiliary troops, allies, Sall. J. 46, 7; Vell. 2, 112, 5; Tac. H. 4, 19; Flor. 3, 21, 18.—
3. A troop of cavalry:
centurio cohortis sextae equestris, Plin. Ep. 10, 106 (107) sq.—4. Per synecdochen, an army in gen.:
cohors Inachiae servatrix, Stat. Th. 5, 672.—B. Specif., the train or retinue of the prœtor in a province:
praetoria, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 14, § 36; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 27, § 66; Cat. 10, 10; Tib. 1, 3, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 6; 1, 8, 14.—C. In gen., a crowd, multitude, company, throng, attendants (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):
vaga, Cat. 63, 25: gigantum, Hor. C. 2, 19, 22: fratrum stipata, Verg. A. 10, 328; cf. Ov. M. 11, 89; Hor. Epod. 16, 60; Tac. A. 6, 9: amicarum, of courtiers, Suet. Calig. 19; id. Ner. 5; id. Galb. 7 al.: canum, Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 143: oratorum, Gell. 19, 8, 15: sectatorum, id. 13, 5, 1.—Of things: febrium, Hor. C. 1, 3, 31.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
cohors rtis (acc. cortem, C.), f
com- + HER-, a court, enclosure, yard, pen, cattle-yard, O.: habes cortem in Palatio, i. e. your house.—A crowd, multitude, company, throng, train: gigantum, H.: fratrum stipata, V.: impura, villanous mob: febrium, H. — In the army, a company, division, cohort (the tenth part of a legion, or six centuriae, about 360 men), Cs.: cum cohortibus expeditis ire, S. — A train, retinue, body of attendants, staff, suite: praetoria, the body-guard of the governor: praetoris: Metelli: tota tua illa: laudat Brutum laudatque cohortem, H.: cf. scortorum praetoria.—Auxiliary troops, allies, S.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *kom + *horti-, the latter a ti-derivative of what is likely the same root underlying *hortos (“enclosure”). By surface analysis, co- + -hors.
Descendants
- Romaniancortfrom Byzantine Greek κοόρτης
- Catalancohort
- Englishcohort
- Frenchcohorte
- GermanKohorte
- Italiancoorte
- Occitancoòrta
- Portuguesecoorte
- Romaniancohortă
- Spanishcohorte
In English words that came into English from cohors
- courtcōrs
- cohortcohors
- courtesancohors
- curtilagecōrtem